{"id":427,"date":"2007-07-26T15:46:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T23:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/hormiga-canyon-is-out\/"},"modified":"2010-10-29T14:25:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T22:25:35","slug":"hormiga-canyon-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/hormiga-canyon-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hormiga Canyon” Is Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My story with Bruce Sterling, \u201cHormiga Canyon,\u201d\u009d is out in the August, 2007, Asimov\u2019s SF magazine<\/a>! Run don\u2019t walk to your nearest quality magazine outlet. I think this might be our best joint effort yet.<\/p>\n

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And, yes, I know that my previous post was kind of intense and mathy. A kilo brick of uncut M.<\/p>\n

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Paul DiFilippo sent an interesting suggesion: have the transfinite creatures be Buddhist devas <\/a>. These devas (not to be confused with devis) aren\u2019t necessarily immortal, but that might be okay; if my higher beings are in fact mortal, they might be more driven and results-oriented and fun to read about. <\/p>\n

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I thought of who the magic harp\u2019s rival should be. The evil pitchfork, natch! I like these as mathematical forms: the triangle and the fork. I\u2019m thinking of a two-tined pitchfork, like rattlesnake teeth.<\/p>\n

I went up on St. Joseph\u2019s hill with my friend Vernon this afternoon and painted my vision of the evil pitchfork. I set him (the evil pitchfork) in a field up there. This is just the first draft, I’ll be working on the picture some more.<\/p>\n

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In Bosch\u2019s paintings you don\u2019t actually see angels with harps (for him, music is more something the devils are into). And you don’t particularly see devils with pitchforks either. Does anyone know when the angel-harp and devil-pitchfork symbolism came into standard usage?<\/p>\n

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Speaking of paintings, if you have been thinking of buying an ImageKind print of my paintings<\/a>, ImageKind is having a sale where shipping is only $5 till Aug 3, 2007, 10PM PST. Use Promo Code: DOGDAYS.<\/p>\n

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Apropos of nothing, last night I realized I could plug my SONY iPod earphones into my laptop for good sound, and I started watching some YouTube videos of people I’d always wondered about, such as the Texas rappers Bun B and Pimp C who were big about 5 years ago. “Pourin Up<\/a>” has interesting sounds, they speed up and slow down the tracks in spots, “screwing” it, perhaps to mimic the psychoacoustic FX of cough syrup in Port Arthur, TX. They call themselves UGK for Underground Kingz. The videos have kind of a downhome, small town feel—reminds me of when I lived in Virginia. Making your own fun. “Front, Back, Side to Side<\/a>” is good too.<\/p>\n

But then I search out the printed lyrics—which I can’t quite understand from the video—and they’re so negative that it makes me not like the videos as much. Cocaine, killing, pimping—why always these topics? Ooops, I sound like a Mundane SF writer saying why is SF always about aliens, faster than light travel, telepathy and smart machines—why always these topics? Main thing is the beat, after all, the sound. “pimp an’ bun”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My story with Bruce Sterling, \u201cHormiga Canyon,\u201d\u009d is out in the August, 2007, Asimov\u2019s SF magazine! Run don\u2019t walk to your nearest quality magazine outlet. I think this might be our best joint effort yet. And, yes, I know that my previous post was kind of intense and mathy. A kilo brick of uncut M. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}